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Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode, we are looking into the life of Sojourner Truth an activist and orator who escaped slavery and fought for peoples rights! FL on Instagram: forgottenlivesyt...

Sojourner Truth: Our History On May 29, 1851 Sojourner Truth spoke at the Second Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron Ohio. She was not invited but attended anyway. She was not asked to speak but rose to advocate...

Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet JACOBS (1813 - 1897) Genre(s): Memoirs Read by: Elizabeth Klett in English Chapters: 00:00:00...

A brief biography of Harriet Jacobs.

Get to know the life and works of poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who became one of colonial America’s most famous writers. – In 1775, General George Washington received a poem from...

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Despite all the hardship of being a Black person in Colonial America, some Black people were able to defy the harsh conditions and create art. Today we're learning about a teenager who attained...

THE HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE by Mary Prince - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks - Mary Prince (c. 1788 – after 1833) was a British abolitionist and autobiographer, born in Bermuda...

In 1831, a slave rebellion led by #NatTurner shook the South to its core. In its wake, the grip of the slaveholders tightened even further. But who was Nat Turner, how did his #rebellion start, and how...